Insurers Must Admit They Have A Customer Experience Problem

I had a chance to speak at the recent North Carolina CEO summit and one of the key takeaways was that one of the hardest things for companies in any industry to do is adjust their business processes to reflect appropriately on the challenges and opportunities made possible by new technology and changing consumer expectations. This is especially true in insurance. , punctuated by the threat of new market entrants.

This inside out thinking leads companies to focus on service-level agreements and other metrics which completely miss the importance of getting the actual customer experience right. Companies may well understand the correlation between poor customer experiences and financial outcomes (e.g., poor persistency rates or a failure to loss of assets under management), but they seem to fail routinely in understanding what the root cause events are driving these results.